Health Disorders – Vitamin Resource

Kleptomania: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

Kleptomania is an Impulse-control disorder (ICD) whose main characteristic is an intense impulse to steal unnecessary objects, almost always of little value. It is a rare mental illness, which is often accompanied by other emotional imbalances.

The kleptomaniac does not plan their robberies nor seeks to benefit from them. This imperious need to take control of what is foreign arises from the intense emotion caused by the act itself. However, later, they may experience a sense of shame or guilt.

Although there is currently no cure for kleptomania, medication treatment and psychological therapy can help reduce the cycle of compulsive theft. Unfortunately, many refuse to seek support, because they do not accept their problem or fear being judged.

Spring Asthenia: What it is and how to overcome it

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Spring asthenia is a transient disorder caused by seasonal changes. It manifests mainly with a feeling of weakness, accompanied by loss of appetite, problems to fall asleep and loss of concentration. The effects of asthenia are usually mild and relapse in less than two weeks.

The arrival of spring, with more hours of daylight, is not always well received by those people most vulnerable to seasonal variations. Experts acknowledge that women are more prone to suffer from spring asthenia, without an explicit cause to determine. Spring is also the season of the year in which there are more allergic processes.

Changes in the body due to anxiety: 10 physical signs

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Unrest, fear, despair and daily stress are factors that can lead to an anxiety crisis. Generally, when one of these crises occurs, it is not an isolated episode and often repeated over time in such a way that it becomes a chronic illness. The effects of anxiety are not only psychological, this nervous condition has a series of symptoms or physical signs that we present below…..

Emotional state capable of changing your body

In addition to being a state that in most cases prevents the sufferer from enjoying life completely or facing certain difficult situations, anxiety also affects the body. Some of the physical signs left by anxiety:

Change your voice

Anxiety affects the muscles of the throat in a spastic way, this means that it is able to modulate your voice and change it from severe to acute through spasms of the vocal cords.

Fibromyalgia: Possible Problems in Sexual Relationships

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The fibromyalgia is one of the pathologies with woman’s face, that is, these are the most vulnerable to suffer from it.

A disorder whose main symptoms are fatigue and continuous muscle aches, that others may also have difficulty sleeping, headache, generalized or localized stiffness in the morning, tingling or numbness in the hands and feet, digestive disturbances, difficulty concentrating or painful menstrual periods.

Fibromyalgia does not affect physical level, also emotional. Thus, fatigue and continued pain, can affect the quality of life of the sufferer and their mood.

People with fibromyalgia are more vulnerable to episodes of anxiety, sadness or depression. Fibromyalgia also evolves in outbreaks, with phases of improvement and worsening. All this makes living with fibromyalgia is not always easy. In fact, we are dealing with a disorder that can affect the couple relationships.

Reasons of why your fingers are always cold

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When it is cold and the temperature is low, it is normal that our fingers to be cold, because the limbs receive less blood pressure because it is focused more on the vital organs. But what happens when our fingers are always cold even though the temperature is warm. The reasons can be more than one.

Raynaud’s Disorder

Raynaud’s disorder is a rare condition in which there is a narrowing of the blood vessels in the fingers (sometimes also the toes and the nose), which causes the fingers to cool down, become white, then blue and once the blood flow returns it turn red; we also feel numbness and tingling. The good thing that Raynaud’s disorder is transient, can be avoided with a change of diet, wearing gloves and avoiding emotional stress, which is almost always the cause of this evil.

How to detox your body?

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Are you feeling lethargic or tired? Do you suffer from skin disorders, get sick quickly or have digestive problems? Do you have trouble losing weight? It might be a good idea to go on a detox.

There are so many different kinds of detoxes that it might be hard to know which one to choose – thin tea detox, smoothie detox or soup detox.

Detoxing has been around for centuries but only recently has it gained a lot of attention and become popular. Detoxing is a way of cleansing your body from the inside out. This results in removal of toxins, cleaning and nourishing your body and then feeding it with healthy food and essential nutrients.

What are the most common sleep disorders

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It is not the first time that we talk about the dream, more specifically about the importance of sleep and does it long enough for our health and our body. And it is already in recent years have met numerous scientific studies pursued in order to analyze the role that sleep has on our health, and more specifically on the restoration and strengthening of different neural circuits.

In the case of children, for example, quality and sleep time is even much more important, as it helps to strengthen the connections between the right and left hemisphere of the brain, improving learning and consolidating or strengthening new concepts or memories.

The effects of sleep a few hours a day, rest less than 6 hours a day directly affects our body and our health, increasing the risk of diseases such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, hypertension or stroke, while affected intellectual capacity and performance, gain weight and the brain is not able to perform its basic functions necessary creating plaques that can then give as a result the appearance of dementia and other related conditions.

Constant hiccups: What is that?

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Hiccups, as sudden and involuntary as uncomfortable, can be more than a temporary discomfort. And the constant hiccups, although it adjectival as unimportant symptom that usually lasts little, can also be persistent and sign that something is wrong in our body.

Why constant hiccup occurs? When should consult the doctor? These are some of the questions that are best answer for how to act in an episode of hiccups.

Constant hiccups, as is the case with other disorders such as night cramps, slight dizziness or a tremor of eyelids, symptoms generally considered unimportant, because the truth is not usually be serious, but sometimes should be consulted.

And one of these occasions is when the hiccups appear consistent or persistent. Before proceeding, it should answer a question.

Dementia: The risk of being lonely

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Dementia: The risk of being capable of constituting, as researchers have found in a new study, a risk factor that makes us more vulnerable to dementia, such as Alzheimer’s. Conclusions drawn from a study in which more than two thousand people participated. And a note, feeling alone is not the same as living alone.

A risk factor over which have focused the researchers to uncover what is hidden and what makes us more vulnerable to dementia as we get older. That yes, we must make a small but important nuance, since it is not same feel just than living alone. The feeling of loneliness also influenced by many other factors, such as the lead a little active life and tends to some social isolation.

Hypochondria: Fear of being sick

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We all are concerned about suffering from any health disorder, but the problem is when the concern is constant, excessive, and when it becomes an unrealistic fear and continuing to suffer the symptoms of a serious illness. Any mild symptoms, such as a slight headache, are interpreted by the patient as a health problem, symptoms resulting from their own state of anxiety and constant worry. Hypochondria can and should be treated. But how do you identify a hypochondriac person? When does it start to be a problem for the health concerns?

Hypochondria, although have physical symptoms such as breathing difficulty, palpitations or insomnia is a disease included in the group of psychiatric diseases and which also includes the anxiety, phobia or obsessive compulsive behaviors.